Window weather-strip.



PATENTED JUNE 13, 1905.

W. PEACE.-

WINDOW WEATHER STRIP.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 13. 1903. RENEWED MAY 11, 1905.

M'i'ndssas.

UNITED STATES Patented June 13, 1905.

\VILLIAM PEACE, OF HAMILTON, CANADA.

WIN DOW WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 792,286, dated June13, 1905. Application filed May 13, 1903. Renewed May 11,1905. SerialNo. 259,959.

To all whom it puny concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PEACE, a citizen of Canada, residing atHamilton, in the county of VVentworth and Province of Ontario, Canada,have invented new and useful Improvements in IVindow l/Veather-Strips,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in window weather-strips, andparticularly to the horizontal meeting-rail of the sash in whichmetallic strips, preferably zinc, are inserted and secured in the lowerhorizontal meetingrail of the upper sash and in the upper horizontalmeeting-rail of the lower sash and horizontally curved or bentin such amanner that the bent part of the strip of the lower sash shall fit intothe bent part of the strip of the upper sash.

The object of my invention is to provide the horizontal meeting-rail ofthe upper and the lower sash with means for protecting the room of ahouse from the weather or storms. Iattain this object by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a frontelevation of a window sash and frame. Fig. 2 is a sectional sideelevation of the same, showing the metallic weather-strips inserted inposition in the horizontal meeting-rail of the upper and the lower sash.Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the horizontal meeting-rails of thesash with the strips in position. as in Fig. 2 of the drawing. Fig. I isan enlarged detail section of the detached metallic strips in relativeposition.

In the drawings the upper sash is represented by A and the lower sash byB. The oblique lines 2 and 2, as seen in Fig. 3 of the drawings, are themeeting or joining rail parts of the sash. The meeting-rail A isprovided with a 1'abbet3 in its side and top adjacent the meeting-railB. Secured to the top of the meeting-rail A is a metallic strip 4:,having a U-shaped portion received in the rabbet 3.

The metallic strip 6 is attached to the upper part of the meeting-rail Bof the lower sash, and the overhanging bent edge 7 of the strip 6extends downward to conform to and to fit loosely in U-shaped edge 5 ofthe strip 4. The strips 4 and 6 extend lengthwise with the meeting-railsA and B of the sash. It will be noticed that the bent part 7 of thestrip 6 is also U-shaped to give strength and stability to the same.This shape is important to prevent the possible creasing of the part 7of the strip and to retain the said bent part in horizontal line inorder that the bent part 7 may always freely leave and enter theU-shaped part 5 of the strip 4 of the upper sash when the said sash israised or lowered, as the case may be. It will be obvious that with thedevice as set forth that the upper sash may be lowered or that the lowersash may be raised, either one or both, as desired.

The construction and attachment of the horizontal metallic strips to thehorizontal meeting-rails of the sash prevents the storms and extremecold weather from penetrating through the joint 2 of said rails in amost satisfactory manner.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent.is-

In a weather-strip, the combination with the meeting-rails, of ametallic strip secured flush with the top of the lower rail of the uppersash and having a U-shaped portion depending at right angles to thesecured portion and seated in a rabbet in said rail, and a right-anglestrip one side of which is secured flush with the top of the upper railof the lower sash, the other side of said strip depending at rightangles to the secured portion and being bent back upon itself to saidsecured portion, said last-named portion adapted to enter the rabbet andbe engaged by the U-shaped strip.

WILLIAM PEACE. Witnesses:

L. E. GEORGE, J. H. HENDRY.

